Religion Quotes - Page 8

The hocus-pocus phantasm of a God, like another Cerberus, with one body and three heads, had its birth and growth in the blood of thousands and thousands of martyrs.

This crime called blasphemy was invented by priests for the purpose of defending doctrines not able to take care of themselves.

Some wish to live within the sound of a chapel bell, I want to run a rescue shop within a yard of Hell.

Prayer is the core of the day. Take prayer out, and the day would collapse.

If cows and horses had hands and could draw, cows would draw gods that look like cows and horses would draw gods that look like horses.

We all have two lives. The second one starts when we realize that we only have one

Religion and good morals are the only solid foundation of public liberty and happiness.

He created the church to meet your five deepest needs: a purpose to live for, people to live with, principles to live by, a profession to live out, and power to live on. There is no other place on earth where you can find all five of these benefits in one place.

From the age of fifteen, dogma has been the fundamental principle of my religion: I know no other religion; I cannot enter into the idea of any other sort of religion; religion, as a mere sentiment, is to me a dream and a mockery.

When lip service to some mysterious deity permits bestiality on Wednesday and absolution on Sunday, cash me out.

Moral values, and a culture and a religion, maintaining these values are far better than laws and regulations.

Your religion is what you do when the sermon is over.

What was once easy became confused and hard, which brings us back to the mystic question, who is God?

It was not by accident that the greatest thinkers of all ages were deeply religious souls.

Christianity is the most ridiculous, the most absurd and bloody religion that has ever infected the world.

Evolution is a fact, as securely established as any in science, and he who denies it betrays woeful ignorance and lack of education, which likely extends to other fields as well.

Discussing religion was like discussing which cave will be better to live. If you want to follow a religion, follow any religion. It does not matter. If you have decided to commit suicide, does it matter how you do it?

Sympathy is no substitute for action.

If 'god' is a metaphysical term, then it cannot be even probable that a god exists. For to say that 'God exists' is to make a metaphysical utterance which cannot be either true or false. And by the same criterion, no sentence which purports to describe the nature of a transcendent god can possess any literal significance.

Fear of things invisible is the natural seed of that which everyone in himself calleth religion.

If we are honest - and scientists have to be - we must admit that religion is a jumble of false assertions, with no basis in reality.

Stripping away the irrational, the illogical, and the impossible, I am left with atheism. I can live with that.

Blind faith, no matter how passionately expressed, will not suffice. Science for its part will test relentlessly every assumption about the human condition.

A religion old or new, that stressed the magnificence of the universe as revealed by modern science, might be able to draw forth reserves of reverence and awe hardly tapped by the conventional faiths. Sooner or later such a religion will emerge.

Religion is not a fractional thing that can be doled out in fixed weekly or daily measures as one among various subjects in the school syllabus. It is the truth of our complete being, the consciousness of our personal relationship with the infinite.